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1979 No. 140 FEDERAL COURT RULES - RULE 61.3

Assessors
3. (1) After an appeal under this Order has been set down for hearing, the
Minister shall furnish to the Registrar a list of the assessors appointed
under section 360 of the Navigation Act 1912, specifying the classes for which
they are classified for the purposes of the Navigation (Courts of Marine
Inquiry) Regulations, and the places at which they reside.

(2) Subject to sub-rule (4), the Registrar shall select not less than 2 of the
assessors specified in the list, from whichever of the classes he considers
appropriate, and summon those assessors to attend and assist the Court at the
time and place fixed for the hearing of the appeal.

(3) Subject to sub-rule (4) the Court may select, or direct the Registrar to
select, other assessors specified in the list, from whichever of the classes
the Court considers appropriate, and may direct the Registrar to summon those
assessors to attend and assist the Court at the time and place fixed for the
hearing of the appeal in addition to or in place of the assessors summoned by
the Registrar under sub-rule (2).

(4) An assessor who assisted a Court of Marine Inquiry in an inquiry into a
matter shall not be summoned to attend and assist the Court on an appeal from
the decision of that Court of Marine Inquiry in that matter.



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